TradeStation Ranked "Top Five" Online Broker by Investor's Business Daily for Second Year in a Row in Major Study of Online Brokerage Customers

Published 7:40 AM ET Tue, 3 Dec 2013
Globe Newswire

PLANTATION, Fla., Dec. 3, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TradeStation, a Monex Group company (Monex Group, Inc. is listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, code: 8698), has been ranked among the "top five" online brokers for Overall Customer Experience in the Investor's Business Daily (IBD) second annual Best Online Brokers study. In addition to being top ranked for customer experience, customers also ranked TradeStation best for Equity Trading Tools and among the "top five" in six other categories considered most important to them.

The IBD Best Online Brokers Report, published in the December 2, 2013 print edition of IBD, is one of the largest of its kind ever conducted, with over 10,000 self-identified active investors rating their experience with a total of 34 online brokerages. It identifies the "top five" online brokers overall and in 12 critical categories, as rated by the brokers' own customers.

"To be recognized again by Investor's Business Daily as one of the best online brokers overall and in multiple critical categories is truly an honor," said Salomon Sredni, CEO of TradeStation Group, Inc. and COO of Monex Group, Inc. "It is particularly gratifying because this ranking is based on the feedback of TradeStation customers. We are committed to giving our customers the tools, execution and support to help them realize their full potential as traders. These results recognize the efforts of the entire TradeStation team to deliver on that commitment."

To speak with an account executive about TradeStation or to open an equities, futures or forex account with TradeStation, call 1-800-808-9336 or visit http://www.tradestation.com. Institutional traders should call 1-800-579-7616.

TradeStation Group, Inc., through its principal operating subsidiaries, TradeStation Securities, Inc. and IBFX, Inc., offers analytical and trading platforms to the active trader and certain institutional trader markets. The TradeStation platform offers electronic order execution and enables clients to design, test, optimize, monitor and automate their own custom equities, options, futures and forex trading strategies. TradeStation Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group, one of the largest online financial services providers in Japan, listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (code:8698).